There is a slight rebound in the vicissitudes of the Sony eBook Reader: Google gave 500,000 ebooks (which are not protected by copyright) are available for free on the Sony eBook Reader. This could be enough to declare that Sony have the largest library, and it is hard to deny that anything is “free” is hard to beat. However, the ebooks will also be available on the Kindle as PDF – free. So while this is great for Sony, it will not allow it to take off compared to the Kindle 2, which costs only $60 more than the Sony eBook Reader, but that includes free access to the internet on Wikipedia and access to more recent ebooks and magazines.

The time for digital cameras and gray is over complicated,l place to beautifu and practical gadgets. Unveiled a few days ago by Sony, the Cyber-shot T900 looks like a very good digital camera: 12.1-megapixels sensor, Carl Zeiss 4x optical zoom and LCD touch screen of 3.5 inches. Available in 4 colors. Price: $380.

Our UK friends will have the new range of OLED touch Walkman by Sony, because pre-orders began on Amazon UK. The X Series version will be 16GB (NWZ-X1050B) and 32GB (NWZ-X1060B), and delivery times ranging from 15 days to 5 weeks. The 16GB and 32GB models are priced at £214 and £283.

Sony has expanded its Walkman range with the NW-S730FK Series which includes the 8GB NW-S738FK and 4GB NW-S736FK. Both devices have a TFT 2-inch screen, and supports WMA, MP3, ATRAC, linear PCM, ATRAC Advanced Lossless, AAC HE-AAC, and JPEG. For the video, you can see movies and video clips in AVC (H.264/AVC), Windows Media Video 9 and MPEG-4.

Sony Japan has announced the DR-BT100CXP, new Bluetooth 2.1 headphones with a remote control and a microphone. These can be used with a digital player or a mobile phone and will be available in early February.

The Sony Vaio G hasn’t received much upgrade these last times to the extent that they had forgotten its existence … But now, Sony reminds us of the order, and proposes the new Vaio G, the G3.

According to the press release, 4 models will be available but nothing exceptionally well on paper … The basic model will always be equipped with a 1.2GHz processor (Core 2 Duo SU9300 1.2 GHz), an XGA LCD 12.1″ screen, 2 GB of RAM, 120GB of hard drive, and Wifi BGN …
While other models will be powered by a Core 2 Duo 1.4GHz (SU9400), 1 or 2 GB of RAM, 120 or 160 GB of hard drive or by 64GB of SSD.

Sony teases us with a new page on its New Zealander website seems to point towards a new “revolutionary VAIO laptop”, which would change the way we look at laptops. Well, knowing Sony, this could be their incursion into netbooks, or it could be an ultraportable laptop entirely new. Most will look to the first, because Sony and Apple should release their netbook, and a netbook with the VAIO brand will be all the rage in the market if it doesn’t exceed $500.

Already widely available in North America and Europe, the HVR-HD1000, finally saw the day in Japan. Expected in January 2009, this new video camera is primarily intended for people who want to have a professional look and looking for mobility. Yes, this video camera (like a real pro camera) and its black finish, is in fact a average HDV camcorder. You will not have in your hands a real competitor to the professional video cameras, as the XDCAM for example.

The OLED technology has been much talked about last months and all manufacturers appropriate it slowly. The latest OLED HDTV is from Sony, with its impressive XEL-1. Only 3 millimeters of thickness and 11 inches diagonally, but a contrast amounting to 1,000,000:1 – for deeper blacks and brighter whites – and up to 40% of energy consumption less than LCD HDTVs. Price of this jewel: $3,300.

If you thought the Blu-Ray of Sony was the support of the future, some manufacturers haven’t said their last word. This is the case of Pioneer, which has announced its optical disk of 16 layers with a total capacity of 400GB. This new support according to its manufacturer should be compatible with the Blu-Ray players in the market. That’s reassuring, this new technology which is still a prototype, will not be available to consumers before 2009/2010…